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2022-11-20

Cruising the Village

The PhD thesis of Dr. Michael Atkins, aka Cheddar Gorgeous (currently starring in RuPaul's Drag Race UK). The 'visual ethnography' aspect is interesting -- the thesis includes a graphic novel, drawings, sketches.

Cruising the Village: A visual ethnography of public sex between men in Manchester city centre.

See also Tearoom Trade (Wikipedia)

Charm

> ...tools to make the command line glamorous

I like the look of Gum - a set of shell script helpers including choosers, file pickers, confirmation dialogs, &c. - and Soft Serve, a self-hostable git server with a TUI.

Charm

Gum

Soft Serve

Mastodon

Some links that provide some historical context to current discussions on Mastodon about the platform's development, (lack of) moderation, failure to address racism:

Mourning Mastodon (2017)

A thread responding to the above by Creatrix Tiara (2017)

A thread on content warnings & 'anti-politics culture' by bundog (2017)

Fringe Mastodev (2018-2019)

Mastodon is crumbling and many blame its creator (2019)